Some fireworks

davev

The Taste of Minnesota puts on a fireworks display every night that it runs.
These were from monday night.

Not great, but not to bad.










The big finish



I'm not real sure how to do the post on these.
If I try to increase the contrast, the pretty colors turn more to white.
If I decrease the contrast, the colors change almost to a pastel.
I'll keep trying. I'll get closer to what I want as time goes by.

Thanks for looking.

For EXIF's go to the Smugmug gallery: http://davev.smugmug.com/gallery/1628638

rahmonster

Oh I really love these! I like that you put the BG in too, instead of just the fireworks and the black, gives it more depth if you know what I mean. Even my two year old said Ohhhh Pretties when I opened the thread:D

GREAPER

Nice shots.

saurora

Boy, I don't see room for improvement in these, Dave. I especially like the first shot that doesn't focus just on the fireworks but the entire area. Plus, the smoke hasn't begun to fog up the shot!! Love seeing the city and the ferris wheel in the lower right and all the little "diamond lights". Beautiful shot!!!

Seefutlung

The last two are very very nice. Fireworks mentally are so great ... that it is very difficult to capture with a thin slice of time, an image to represent what we mentally vision/remember over the entire show. I like your shots, once again the last two draw you into the photo and I could smell the explosives.

davev

Thanks folks.

One More

nwilkins

Absolutely stunning shots, Dave! Some of the best fireworks I've ever seen.

Nancy

Dee

Wow
These are great!!! What are you complaining about? Your exposure is "right on" too! I think you did a great job, and I love the setting too.

davev

Nancy, Dee, Thanks.

I'm not complaining, I just said that they weren't great.

As for the exposure being right on, lets just say that PSE4 with highlights/shadows
helped quite a bit.

grimace

Nice shots Davev!! I'll have to check with T-Mobile and see why my phone didn't ring to attend the fireworks.:cry

Actually, we were in Door County, WI.:D

Great work as always!!

davev

grimace wrote:

Nice shots Davev!! I'll have to check with T-Mobile and see why my phone didn't ring to attend the fireworks.:cry

Actually, we were in Door County, WI.:D

Great work as always!!

Ummmm, the dog ate my phone, I lost the number, I'm not very smart?

You probably wouldn't buy the first two, but I know you'll buy that third one.

This came about pretty late with Dilemma and I BS-ing over the phone.
Next time I go out I'll give you a call.

fire1035

Alright my question is how did you get the green ones to show up? I shot just about everything in Indy the other night. While I got much more blue than I did last year mostly eveything showed up in red or white. Any suggestions? I can post a couple if needed. Thanks!

davev

fire1035 wrote:

Alright my question is how did you get the green ones to show up? I shot just about everything in Indy the other night. While I got much more blue than I did last year mostly eveything showed up in red or white. Any suggestions? I can post a couple if needed. Thanks!

I wish I could share my secrets with you, but I don't have any.

The only thing I can suggest is to not use USM.
When I used it, a lot of the colors turned white.
Instead I took the sharpen tool and went over what needed to be sharpened,
and left the fireworks themselves alone.
I did up the saturation a little also.

davev

Replying to my own post just doesn't seem right.

I had to try changing one of the pics to B&W just to see what it would look like.

I think it holds up.

color



B&W (removed color, then gradient map for contrast)